❗ Chat commands
Everything players and moderators can type in game chat, in one place. All of it happens in the normal chat box - press T, type the command, press Enter.
On the Mods tab, Copy cheat sheet copies this whole list ready to paste into Discord.
Commands for everyone
| Type this | What it does | Switched on at |
|---|---|---|
!switch | Moves you to the other team. Once every 2 minutes. Not on co-op maps. (Your admin may have changed the word.) | Chat Bot |
!kd | Your kills, deaths and kill/death ratio. !kd name shows somebody else's. | Messages |
!1 !2 !3 | Vote in the end-of-match map vote (up to !5 if your admin offers five maps). During an auto-balance warning, !1 volunteers you to change team. | Map Voting |
!vote mapname | Ask the server to switch to a map. Part of the name is enough. Others agree with !yes within 60 seconds. | Settings |
!skip | Ask to skip the current map. Others agree with !yes. | Settings |
!yes | Agree with the vote that is running. | |
!list | Shows the map rotation. | |
!ping | Shows your own ping. |
Commands for moderators
These only work for names on the Mods tab, and only if the person's rank includes the command (from WolfRAT 2.6.6 - an Admin can use all of them; a Moderator, to begin with, everything except !ban, !map, !gametime, !time, !add and !remove). From anyone not on the list they are silently ignored. Where a command needs a player or a map, part of the name is enough - !kick rook finds "Rookie", !map treasure finds "Treasure Island".
For maps (!map, !add, !remove, !vote), from 2.9.7 spaces, dashes, underscores and capitals do not matter: !map td sulp, !map TD-Sulphur and !map td_sulphur all find "TD - Sulphur Creek". The map's file name works too, a wrong mode at the front is forgiven, and training maps come last. If several maps fit, nothing loads and the chat asks which one you meant.
Players
| Type this | What it does |
|---|---|
!warn player reason | Warns the player in chat. The reason is optional. |
!kick player reason | Kicks the player. They can come back. |
!ban player reason | Adds the player's name and IP to the Bans tab list and kicks them; they are kicked again every time they return. The reason is optional. |
!unban name | Takes a name or an address off the ban list. Same rank permission as !ban. |
!kill player | Kills the player. |
Teams
| Type this | What it does |
|---|---|
!swap player | Moves a player to the other team and respawns them there. Refused on co-op maps. |
!balanceteams | Moves players off the bigger team until the numbers are even. |
!mixteams | Shuffles everybody at random. |
Match and maps
| Type this | What it does |
|---|---|
!startvote | Starts the map vote now. Use it when a team is about to hit the kill or score limit before the clock would start the vote. |
!next | Skips to the next map. |
!map name | Switches to a map straight away. |
!add name | Adds a map to the rotation. |
!remove name | Removes a map from the rotation. |
!gametime 30 | Sets the match length in minutes (1 to 240). |
!time 1800 | Sets the time of day, to the nearest hour (!time 930 becomes 10:00). |
Weather
These need Let mods change the weather from chat ticked on the Weather tab, and WolfRAT running on the same PC as the server.
| Type this | What it does |
|---|---|
!storm 10 | Rain, dark cloud and fog for ten minutes. The number is optional. |
!rain !drizzle !snow !blizzard !fog !overcast | The other skies, same optional minutes. |
!clear | A dry sky for the minutes given (optional), then the map's own weather comes back. |
!quake 5 | Earthquake, 1 to 40 seconds. |
!lightning | A flash and a crack of thunder (needs the lightning add-on). !lightning red makes it coloured; add far for a distant one. |
!weather on | Lets the weather change on its own. Add how often: rare, normal, frequent, always, or custom 5 20 for a front every 5 to 20 minutes. |
!weather off | Stops the changing weather; the sky goes back to the map's own. |
!weather status | Says whether it is on, and how often. |
Sky colours
These need Let mods use !sky from chat ticked on the Sky page, Sky ticked for the mod's rank, and the sky-colour patch on the server.
| Type this | What it does |
|---|---|
!sky toxic | That scene until the map changes; !sky toxic 10 for ten minutes. |
!sky off | The map's own sky. |
!sky demo | Every scene, 8 seconds each. |
!sky list | The scene names in chat. |
Good to know
- Commands only work while WolfRAT is running and connected - it is WolfRAT that reads the chat and acts on it.
- Expect a few seconds' delay. WolfRAT reads the chat every 5 seconds.
- Type something WolfRAT does not know and it answers "Unknown command". From 2.8.2 that answer is a private whisper (orange) only the person who typed it sees - when WolfRAT runs on the same PC as the server and is linked. Otherwise it goes to public chat as before.
- Admins can type all of these from the phone page too.